Israeli forces conduct night raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-daily basis. According to UN documentation, the Israeli army carried out 185 military detention raids between Nov. 1 and Nov. 14.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of October. The organization estimates that 40 percent of Palestinian men have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives.

Two Palestinian minors have accused Israeli forces of assaulting them while in custody, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Sunday.

Ammar Tawfiq Abu Hilal, 15, and Jihad Elayyan, 16, who were both taken to the Ofer detention center in the occupied West Bank, told PPS that they were severely mistreated by Israeli soldiers.

Abu Hilal said that Israeli soldiers held him by his neck and tried to strangle him when they detained him from his home in the village of Dura in the Hebron district, adding that the soldiers deliberately escalated violence after he told them he was sick.

Abu Hilal added that Israeli forces then took him to an Israeli watchtower and continued beating him to force him to confess that he had thrown rocks.

The teen was then left outdoors under the heat for two hours, and was not given food nor water for 12 hours.

Meanwhile, Elayyan told PPS that Israeli soldiers assaulted him during his detention on Oct. 31, hitting him deliberately in the legs and causing fractures in his ankle and toes.

The teenager was then taken to Ofer, before being transferred to the Hadassah medical center for treatment.

In July 2015, legislation was passed in the Israeli Knesset allowing sentencing for up to 20 years for someone convicted of throwing stones at vehicles if intent to harm could be proven. However, the law allows the Israeli state to imprison someone for up to 10 years without proof of intent.

The vast majority of those detained for throwing stones at Israelis are Palestinian minors.

The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a September report that at least 1,000 Palestinian minors between the ages of 11 and 18 had been detained by Israel since January.

The committee reported in October that the “overwhelming majority” of Palestinian minors held in Israel’s Megiddo and Ofer prisons have been tortured during their detention and interrogation.

According to prisoners’ rights groups Addameer, a total of 400 Palestinian minors were incarcerated in Israeli prisons as of October.

The Israeli police forces arrested Sunday four Palestinian children after breaking into Issawiya and Silwan towns in occupied Jerusalem.

Head of the Jerusalemite prisoners’ families committee Amjed Abu Assab affirmed that Israeli police brutally broke into Issawiya town east of the occupied city and stormed several local houses under the pretext of looking for “wanted persons.”

Three minors aged 16 were detained during the raid, Abu Assab added.

Israeli police also arrested a fourth minor after breaking into his family house in Silwan town earlier on Sunday.

On the other hand, the young Munther Salman, 19, handed himself to Israeli police to serve his 4-month sentence.

Salman was earlier sentenced to 4 months for allegedly being involved in stone-throwing attack.

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, five Palestinians, including a child, from Barta’a town, isolated behind the Annexation Wall, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday evening kidnapped five Palestinian civilians from Jenin’s western town of Bertaa, in the northern West Bank.

A PIC news correspondent said heavily-armed IOF troops cordoned off Bertaa town, near the apartheid fence, and sealed off all access roads into the area with military checkpoints, before they kidnapped five Palestinians from the same family.

14-year-old minor Omar Mahmoud al-Haj Sai’d was among the five captives.

The other arrestees were identified as Badran, 36, Mahmoud, 30, Umran, 19, and their elderly uncle Mohamed al-Haj Sa’id, 58.

The IOF further pitched a military checkpoint on the main road between Yabad and eastern Bertaa, where Palestinian passengers and vehicles have been subjected to exhaustive inspection.

A home to a large central market frequently visited by Palestinians living in 1948 occupied territories for commercial trade, Bertaa town has been the permanent target of abrupt assaults by the Israeli occupation army.

The Israeli occupation police released late Thursday evening four Palestinian children, from Occupied Jerusalem, on condition of house confinement.

Lawyer Saleh Mheissen, from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, said the four Palestinian children were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from Silwan town, three among whom while on their way back home from school.

They were identified as 13-year-old Amer Waleed Abdul Razzaq and Mahdi Moussa Qara’ine, along with Muadh Jamal Zaytoune, 14. The captives were held in custody and subjected to intensive questioning on claims of stone-hurling. They were released hours later on conditions of a five-day house confinement and an unpaid bail of up to 5,000 shekels.

The fourth child, 13-year-old Jamal Mohamed Qara’ine, endured hours of exhaustive interrogation on the same allegation and was released on conditions of a seven-day house arrest, a bail of 1,000 shekels, and a third-party bail.

Jamal said he was arrested on his way out of a barbershop in Silwan and was transferred to an Israeli police station in Salah al-Din Street, where he had been subjected to heavy beating and verbal abuse in order to force confession.

An Israeli magistrate court in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, sentenced a teenaged Palestinian girl to 13-and-a-half years in prison, for a stabbing attack carried out exactly one year ago in Jerusalem.

According to a statement released by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), lawyer Mufid al-Hajj reported that the prison sentence handed down to 17-year-old Nurhan Awwad also came with a fine of 30,000 shekels ($7,757).

Exactly one year ago, when Awwad was 16-years-old, she carried out a stabbing attack with her 14-year-old cousin Hadil Wajih Awwad, who was shot dead by an Israeli security guard during the incident.

Meanwhile, Nurhan was severely wounded with two bullet wounds in her stomach.

Video footage showed both girls running at the security officer waving scissors, before the security guard and another Israeli managed to knock the girls to the ground.

Once on the ground, the security guard ran forward and shot each of them several times.

According to Ma’an News Agency, Hadil Awwad, a resident of the Qalandia refugee camp, died almost immediately. Her brother, Mahmoud Awwad, reportedly died in 2013, several months after he was shot and injured during clashes with Israeli troops inside the refugee camp.

Rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces’ “shoot-to-kill” policy against Palestinians since a wave of violence first erupted in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel in October, so far leaving 240 Palestinian killed, stating that a number Palestinians had been shot dead even when not constituting an immediate threat at the time of their death or when they could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.

Nurhan Awwad’s prison sentence is the latest in an Israeli crackdown on Palestinian teenagers who have committed attacks against Israelis, while Israeli authorities have ordered lengthy prison sentences for Palestinians as young as 14 years old.

Ahmad Manasra, 14, made headlines earlier this month when he was sentenced to 12 years in Israeli prison after he was charged with attempted murder for carrying out a stabbing attack on Oct. 12, 2015 that left two Israelis seriously injured. In addition, the court imposed a fine on his family of 180,000 shekels ($47,187).

Meanwhile, on Monday, an Israeli court in Jerusalem also sentenced 19-year-old Subhi Abu Khalifa from the Shufat refugee camp in the West Bank’s Jerusalem district to 18 years in prison for committing a stabbing attack in Jerusalem last year that left two Israelis injured.

In addition, the family of Palestinian prisoner Abed Dwiyaat, 20, said on Monday that their lawyer had reached an agreement with Israeli prosecution, suggesting that Dwiyaat would be sentenced to 18 years in prison for causing the death of an Israeli man after throwing rocks at his vehicle.

In August, the controversial “Youth Bill” was passed in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. The bill allows Israeli authorities to imprison a child under the age of 14 if convicted of “terrorism” against Israeli civilians or military personnel.

While critics said the bill was intended to punish primarily Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem who attempt attacks on Israeli civilians and military, it is just one of several laws which have been passed over the last year targeting Palestinian minors and fast-tracking the imprisonment of Palestinian youth.

In July 2015, legislation was passed in the Israeli Knesset allowing sentencing for up to 20 years for someone convicted of throwing stones at vehicles if intent to harm could be proven. However, the law allows the Israeli state to imprison someone for up to 10 years without proof of intent.

The vast majority of those detained for throwing stones at Israelis are Palestinian minors.

In November, Israel established legislation allowing the sentencing of Palestinians to a minimum of three years in prison for the act of throwing a stone at an Israeli. Included in the legislation were provisions allowing Israeli authorities to strip stone throwers in East Jerusalem of their state benefits and cancel access to national health insurance and social services for the families of the accused.

According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), proposals are also underway to allow Israeli authorities to hand down life sentences to children under the age of 14.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, 400 Palestinian minors were detained by Israel as of October, many of whom the group said were beaten, threatened, sexually assaulted, and placed in solitary confinement during their interrogation and detention.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Wednesday 17 Palestinians in predawn raids throughout West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli Army claimed that 17 “wanted” Palestinians were detained for allegedly being involved in anti-occupation attacks.

According to the Israeli military sources, two Palestinians were detained in Tulkarem while another was arrested in Salfit. Two more arrests were reported in occupied Jerusalem and five detainees in al-Khalil.

Six Jerusalemite minors were also among the reported arrests.

Weapons and amounts of money were reportedly found during the predawn raids, the sources claimed.

Local sources told PIC reporter that nearly 15 Israeli vehicles carrying dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Qalqilia north of West Bank and arrested a young man after being summoned for investigation.

A printing house was also stormed and searched in the city, where several equipment were confiscated.